tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115467392015-08-02T08:43:53.097-06:00Bob's BlogThis blog is looking for wisdom, to have and to share. it is also looking for other rare character traits like good humor, courage, and honor. It is not an easy road, because all of us fall short. But God is love, forgiveness and grace. Those who believe in Him and repent of their sins have the promise of His Holy Spirit to guide us and show us the Way.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.comBlogger13950125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-60142255950213476742015-08-02T08:43:00.000-06:002015-08-02T08:43:53.117-06:00When even Bernie Sanders can talk like this, how come half the Republican field won't even go there?Mark Steyn writes, <blockquote>Every sentient Republican voter knows that "comprehensive immigration reform" is Beltway-speak for legalizing 30 million law-breakers while incentivizing 30 million more.<br /><br />A significant section of the GOP base is sick of dialing Republican headquarters and hearing "Press 1 for Spanish, press 2 for consultant-approved claptrap, press 3 for artful straddle, press 4 for all disavowals of last year's positions, press 5 for endless looped replays of John McCain's amusing primary-season-only super-butch 'Build the danged fence!' commercial, press 6 for live audio feed of John McCain teaching Lindsey Graham how to say 'Danged!', press 7 if you know the Spanish for 'Danged!', press 8 to hear Jeb Bush say 'No amnesty, not on my watch, no sirree!', press 9 to hear Jeb Bush say 'Viva la danged amnistía!' If you wish someone to speak to you in non-forked-tongue English, please stay on the line and wait for an operator."<br /><br />After years in touch-tone hell for GOP voters, the operator has now shown up. Donald Trump is a slicker operator than some of us would like, but his observations on immigration were a rare intrusion of reality into an other-worldly public discourse.</blockquote>Read more from this immigrant<a href="http://www.steynonline.com/7078/pathway-to-codswallop"> here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-16004094893540962392015-08-02T08:28:00.002-06:002015-08-02T08:28:44.577-06:00Will we demand it?Seth Godin writes, <blockquote><br />There’s an increasing gulf between the privacy of individuals and that of corporations and monopolies.<br /><br />An individual is almost certainly going be videotaped every time he leaves home. You will be caught on camera in the store, at the airport and on the street. Your calls to various organizations will also be recorded “for quality purposes.”<br /><br />At the same time, it’s against the law to film animal cruelty on farms in many states. And if you say to a customer service rep, “I’m taping this call,” you’re likely to be met with hostility or even a dead line.<br /><br />Kudos, then, to police departments for responding to the public and putting cameras in cars and on uniforms. And points to Perdue for building a chicken processing plant where the animals aren’t covered with feces and where they’re able to proudly give a tour to a reporter. They're not doing this because they're nice guys... they're doing it because customers are demanding it. They view a transparent supply chain as a competitive advantage that their competitors will have trouble replicating.<br /><br />Your online history with a company ought to include a complete history of all the emails and phone calls you've had with them. And when you choose a piece of clothing or a piece of fish, it ought to be easy to see where it was made and who touched it along the way. <br /><br />If we're willing to see it.<br /><br />It's not a technical problem. It will happen as soon as enough voices in the supply chain (perhaps us, the end of the chain) demand it.<br /></blockquote>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-7316058066827128892015-08-01T22:07:00.001-06:002015-08-01T22:10:22.738-06:00Think twice before stopping to help this guy<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IYg9B8MhDeA/Vb2UD0sPIOI/AAAAAAAAUlA/lboceZpBqMI/s1600/crow-nation-shooting-665x385.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IYg9B8MhDeA/Vb2UD0sPIOI/AAAAAAAAUlA/lboceZpBqMI/s400/crow-nation-shooting-665x385.jpg" /></a><br />Inquisitr.com reports<blockquote>A man posing as a stranded driver convinced a family to stop along the road of a Montana Indian reservation – and then allegedly pulled out his gun and shot the entire family. Jesus Deniz Mendoza, 18, (also known as Jesus Deniz) demanded money from the Shane family and began firing his gun as the daughter, Jorah Shane, 26, was ordered to run, by her mother.<br /><br />Jesus Deniz claimed he had run out of gas near the Crow Indian Reservation, Jorah Shane told Montana police officers from her hospital bed before undergoing surgery to have a bullet removed from her spine. Ada Shane, the young woman’s aunt, made sure the television stayed off in her niece’s room as she shared her story because Jorah had not yet been told that both of her parents had been killed.<br /><br /><br />The Shane family was about 50 yards from home when they stopped to help Jesus Mendoza. Tana Shane reportedly went home and gathered up her daughter and husband, and then drove back to help the stranded driver. Soon after exiting their vehicle, Mendoza pulled his gun and pointed it at Jason Shane’s head.<br /><br />After ordering the mother and daughter out of the car, he reportedly demanded all of their money. The Shane family had only recently returned from a Window Rock, Arizona religious revival, and only had some spare change on hand. Mendoza then reportedly ordered the family to “start walking” and Tana Shane whispered to Jorah in their Native American language, telling her to run.<br /><br />Jorah Shane recalled hearing a shot and began running quickly as she said she heard bullets passing close by her head. She then heard her mother screaming, felt blood running down her face when a bullet grazed her head, and then a bullet hit her in the spine area.</blockquote><br />Read more <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/2297293/teen-shot-montana-family-who-stopped-near-crow-nation-indian-reservation-to-help-him/">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-3929868914810106602015-08-01T21:39:00.000-06:002015-08-01T21:39:17.525-06:00"Hilla the Hun"Laura Collins writes at DailyMail.com about the likelihood of more women who have been sexually involved with Bill Clinton speaking out as Hillary begins her run for the presidency. <blockquote>...especially from Gennifer Flowers who claimed Bill liked to be blindfolded and tied up with silk scarves and called his wife 'Hilla the Hun'<br /><br />...Among the most explosive of scandals was Gennifer Flowers, 65, whose torrid 12 year affair with Bill during his time as Attorney General and governor of Arkansas wrought havoc on his presidential bid in 1992. She may be next to divulge more damaging secrets of her time with the former president.<br /><br />She has claimed that Hillary and Bill have an 'understanding' where 'each would look the other way,' at the other's marital infidelities and sexual indiscretions.<br /><br />In the books she revealed that Bill was 'not very well endowed' but that 'his desire to please' was 'astounding.' She described their often experimental sex life as one filled with fantasy and play. Frustrated by the clandestine nature of their affair Bill used to fantasize about having sex with his lover in a store window.<br /><br />According to Flowers, Bill shared with her the reality of his marriage to Hillary whom he called 'The Sarge' or 'Hilla the Hun,' and claimed that sex with her was nothing but a 'duty.'<br /><br />In stark contrast she described wild sex with Clinton who, she revealed, had a penchant for telephone sex and sex-play that involved blindfolding her and feeding her various food items. And though she claims to have drawn the line at Clinton's request for a threesome, she recalled how on several occasions she tied him to her bedposts with silk scarves.<br /><br />'He was completely at my mercy,' she wrote. 'And I took full advantage of it…Bill as always wanted to take it a step further, so next time I tied him to the bed, he asked me to use a dildo-shaped vibrator on him.'<br /><br />She also revealed that the couple nicknamed their private parts. She called hers Precious, he called his Willard.<br /><br />At times Clinton was surprisingly reckless asking Flowers to dress like a man and meet him at a public bar – unconvinced that she could pull off the disguise she didn't go through with their plan.<br /><br />On another occasion he tried to persuade her to have sex with him in a restroom at the Governor's mansion while Hillary was co-hosting a function with him and just yards away in another room.<br /><br />It was, Flowers believed, evidence of a 'bulletproof attitude' that Clinton adopted in relation not only to their affair but also to recreational drug use.<br /><br />She recalled one occasion when 'he casually put his hand in his pants pocket and pulled out a joint…I thought how foolish it was of him to carry marijuana around but…he felt comfortable enough to continue smoking.' <br /><br />She said she never saw him use cocaine but that he talked about it, once referring to a party he had been to and claiming, 'I got so f***** up on cocaine at that party.' He said it made his scalp itch.<br /><br />...Speaking to Daily Mail Online recently Flowers said that the former president called her as recently as 2005 asking to meet up and alleged that Hillary was bisexual and that Clinton had long been aware of the fact.<br /><br />...It was, according to Flowers, a lack of enthusiasm that first raised Clinton's suspicions that his wife was more interested in women than men. He told her, she said, 'Honey, she's probably eaten more p**** than me.'<br /><br />She also voiced the belief that she and Clinton would be together to this day had it not been for the birth of Chelsea, whom he adores – an assertion made all the more piquant by the fact that Flowers claimed that Clinton paid for an abortion after she fell pregnant during their affair.</blockquote>Read more <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3180398/Hillary-Clinton-s-camp-fears-new-bimbo-eruption-kibosh-candidacy-especially-Gennifer-Flowers-claimed-Bill-liked-blindfolded-tied-silk-scarves-called-wife-Hilla-Hun.html">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-8713997484392287922015-08-01T20:48:00.001-06:002015-08-01T20:51:14.986-06:00Another massive new Obama power grabStanley Kurtz writes in National Review that in July<blockquote>HUD Secretary Julian Castro announced the finalization of the Obama administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule.<br /><br />AFFH is easily one of President Obama’s most radical initiatives, on a par with Obamacare in its transformative potential. In effect, AFFH gives the federal government a lever to re-engineer nearly every American neighborhood — imposing a preferred racial and ethnic composition, densifying housing, transportation, and business development in suburb and city alike, and weakening or casting aside the authority of local governments over core responsibilities, from zoning to transportation to education. Not only the policy but the political implications are immense — at the presidential, congressional, state, and local levels.<br /><br />...the real story of AFFH is the attempt to force integration by class, to densify development in American suburbs and cities, and to undo America’s system of local government and replace it with a “regional” alternative that turns suburbs into helpless satellites of large cities. Once HUD gets its hooks into a municipality, no policy area is safe. Zoning, transportation, education, all of it risks slipping into the control of the federal government and the new, unelected regional bodies the feds will empower. Over time, AFFH could spell the end of the local democracy that Alexis de Tocqueville rightly saw as the foundation of America’s liberty and distinctiveness.<br /><br />...It will take time to collect the data on which HUD’s new demands for local governments all over America will be based. While important enforcement will begin under the Obama administration, the major impact of AFFH will come under President Hillary Clinton, should she be elected. And Obama’s AFFH enforcer, Julian Castro, is widely touted as a likely vice-presidential running mate for Hillary. That means AFFH is going to be an issue in the next presidential campaign.<br /><br />And the political implications go deeper still, to every level of government. Westchester County, New York, where AFFH has had a dry run of sorts, is now administered by Republican county executive Robert Astorino. Many forget that before the Obama administration tried to force Westchester County to cast aside its own zoning laws and build high-density, low-income housing at its own expense, Westchester was a liberal Democratic county run by liberal Democrats. After all, this is where Bill and Hillary Clinton live. At the local level, the Obama administration drove Westchester into the arms of the Republicans. The same thing could happen nationally, at every political level. But only if the frog wakes up and jumps by November of 2016. Even with AFFH now public, the Obama administration and the press corps will do everything in their power to obscure the real issues at stake in the massive AFFH power-grab. Don’t let that happen.</blockquote>Read more <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420896/massive-government-overreach-obamas-affh-rule-out-stanley-kurtz?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-21205103630391009342015-08-01T20:09:00.001-06:002015-08-01T20:09:28.135-06:00The mammogram lieMichelle Malkin writes at National Review, <blockquote>The breast-cancer screening charade casts Planned Parenthood as a life-saving provider of vital health services unavailable anywhere else. You may recall that during the 2012 presidential campaign, Obama himself falsely claimed during a debate that the abortion provider administers mammograms to “millions” of women — and liberal CNN moderator Candy Crowley let him get away with it.<br /><br />Once again, it was undercover pro-life journalists who unmasked the truth. An investigation of 30 Planned Parenthood clinics in 27 different states, conducted by the pro-life group Live Action, confirmed that the abortion provider does not perform breast-cancer screenings. “We don’t provide those services whatsoever,” a staffer at Planned Parenthood of Arizona confessed on tape. Planned Parenthood’s Comprehensive Health Center clinic in Overland Park, Kan., admitted: “We actually don’t have a, um, mammogram machine at our clinics.”<br /><br />...The Obama HHS apparently needs to be reminded of its own review exposing the mammography deception. In June 2012, the agency responded to a request for information about how many Planned Parenthood clinics were certified to operate mammogram facilities. “Our search did not find any documents pertinent to your request,” HHS told the Alliance Defense Fund.<br /><br />...Ladies, open your eyes and hearts. Watch the videos for yourselves. Get the facts. Unmask the lies. The cackling profiteers of Planned Parenthood don’t care about your breasts. They’re too busy putting price tags on the baby hearts, livers, lungs, and limbs swirling around in bloody pie plates, stacked in their “research” labs, subsidized with your tax dollars and sold to the highest bidders. For “preventative care,” of course.</blockquote>Read more <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/planned%20parenthoods-mammogram-lie-">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-79680669612322448522015-08-01T19:53:00.000-06:002015-08-01T19:53:26.243-06:00Organic agriculture not what you may thinkHenry I. Miller and Drew L. Kershen report at Forbes that<blockquote>the vast majority of pesticidal substances that we consume are in our diets “naturally” and are present in organic foods as well as non-organic ones. In a classic study, UC Berkeley biochemist Bruce Ames and his colleagues found that “99.99 percent (by weight) of the pesticides in the American diet are chemicals that plants produce to defend themselves.” Moreover, “natural and synthetic chemicals are equally likely to be positive in animal cancer tests.” Thus, consumers who buy organic to avoid pesticide exposure are focusing their attention on just one-hundredth of 1% of the pesticides they consume.<br /><br />Some consumers think that the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) requires certified organic products to be free of ingredients from “GMOs,” organisms crafted with molecular techniques of genetic engineering. Wrong again. USDA does not require organic products to be GMO-free.<br /><br />USDA reported in 2012 that 43% of the 571 samples of “organic” produce that were tested contained prohibited pesticide residues, and that “the findings suggest that some of the samples in violation were mislabeled conventional products, while others were organic products that hadn’t been adequately protected from prohibited pesticides.”<br /><br />Organic agriculture is an unscientific, heavily subsidized marketing gimmick that misleads and rips off consumers, both because of the nature of the regulations and cheating. The old saying that you get what you pay for doesn’t apply when you buy overpriced organic products.</blockquote>Read more <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2015/07/29/why-organic-agriculture-is-a-colossal-hoax/2/">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-56357756582817901402015-08-01T19:26:00.002-06:002015-08-01T19:26:49.760-06:00Thinking about some resistance training?Michael Schramm writes at college.usatoday.com with some advice about weightlifting exercises. <blockquote>Here are 7 tips that will set you on the path for success.<br />1. Understand how weightlifting works scientifically.<br />Your muscles actually grow by being torn down. When performing resistance training, your muscles will create small tears from being pushed to the limit. Once this happens, your body repairs these micro tears, adding more tissue than before to account for the increased damage in your body.<br /><br />2. Be realistic about your goals.<br /><br />3. Know the basics of how to train.<br />You’ll want to understand how lifting regimens work before choosing one that’s most effective for you. When weightlifting, you perform exercises that engage specific muscles. Beginners frequently perform a few exercises on each muscle 2-3 times a week and work up to splitting their workout days by body part. Tricep and chest day, bicep and back, and leg and shoulder day are a few examples of how to split up a 3-day-week exercise regimen.<br /><br />4. Heavily research a workout plan before you start.<br />Instead of making your own routine, it’s often easier and more effective to start with a routine that a professional has created. Websites like bodybuilding.com contain a variety of exercise regimens — with an entire section dedicated to beginners.<br /><br />5. Doing an exercise correctly is more important than using more weight to do it incorrectly.<br /><br />6. Push yourself.<br />You should always use correct form, but you should also be pushing yourself to perform an exercise with either more repetitions or a higher weight than you’ve done before. No exercise you do should be easy because then you’re not maximizing the tears and gains that you could make. If it’s easy, then you should be trying to either do more repetitions or increase the amount of weight.<br /><br />7. Switch up your routine.<br />These changes can include the amount of sets and reps done, variations in the exercises you do for each muscle and incorporations of other weightlifting techniques (drop sets, super sets and negatives, for example).</blockquote>Read more <a href="http://college.usatoday.com/2015/07/30/7-tips-to-help-you-get-into-weightlifting/?hootPostID=ac820992160fb33e48cd064dc2d0e091">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-31938048789928181172015-08-01T18:12:00.001-06:002015-08-01T18:12:32.567-06:00Flying free over Dubai<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6g95E4VSfj0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Thanks to Open Blogger at Ace of Spades.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-32545067937823447742015-08-01T17:30:00.001-06:002015-08-01T19:01:33.068-06:00Paralyzed legs moving voluntarily againRichard Moss reorts at gizmag, <blockquote>Five men with complete motor paralysis have regained the ability to move their legs voluntarily and produce step-like movements after being treated with a non-invasive form of spinal cord stimulation. The new treatment builds on prior work to generate voluntary movements in paralyzed people through electrical stimulation – in particular, two studies (one completed in 2011, the other in 2014) that involved surgically implanting an electrode array on the spinal cord. This time, however, the researchers found success without performing any invasive surgery.<br /><br />The new treatment uses a technique called transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, which involves strategically placing electrodes on the skin of the lower back. While receiving stimulation, the men's legs were supported by braces that hung from the ceiling. At first their legs only moved involuntarily, if at all. But they soon found they could voluntarily extend the distance their legs moved during stimulation. They doubled their range of voluntary motion after four treatment sessions.<br /><br />In an effort to further improve voluntary motion, the researchers gave the men a drug called buspirone during the final four weeks of the 18-week study. This drug mimics the neurotransmitter serotonin, and it is known to induce walking motions in mice with spinal cord injuries.<br /><br />All five men had been paralyzed for more than two years prior to receiving the treatment, which lasted 45 minutes at a time and was conducted once a week for the duration of the study. But by the end of the study, after they had received the buspirone drug, they could all move their legs with no stimulation at all. This movement was comparable to what they achieved while receiving stimulation.<br /><br />"It's as if we've reawakened some networks [in the nervous system]," said co-lead researcher V. Reggie Edgerton.<br /><br />There appear to be connections between the brain and spinal cord even in some paralyzed people, only they have gone dormant. But electrical signals generated in the men's leg muscles during stimulation suggest this can be reversed.</blockquote>Read more <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/non-invasive-spinal-cord-stimulation-restores-movement-paralysis/38719/">here.</a><br /><br />Thanks to InstapunditBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-57019553158997562392015-08-01T09:05:00.000-06:002015-08-01T09:05:08.466-06:00Slavery of Christian women and girls continues in the Islamic StateNina Shea writes at The American Interest about <blockquote>The Islamic State’s Christian and Yizidi Sex Slaves. Women, children, even toddlers—the Islamic State’s goal is to sell them on an open market to men of all means, especially the young jihadis on whom the caliphate depends.<br /><br />Unlike Muslims, who can conform and wait out ISIS until the day it is defeated, Christians, along with “polytheist” Yizidis, can don veils and give up cigarettes and alcohol, but, as non-Muslims, their very presence is an intolerable offense to the year-old “caliphate.” These minority religious groups in Iraq and Syria, lacking protecting armies or militias of their own, find themselves in unique peril. During his Bolivian trip this month, Pope Francis called it “genocide.”<br />ISIS demands nothing less than the conversion of all Christians and Yizidis to Islam under penalty of death for men and enslavement for women and children. (Another frequently cited option for Christian “People of the Book”, the payment of jizya, is a ruse, for the tax is raised until it becomes unpayable and property and lives are taken after all. Hence, last summer, Mosul’s bishops chose exile for their communities, rather than attend an ISIS meeting to learn of its jizya terms.)<br /><br />The beheadings, crucifixions, and other means ISIS uses to slaughter unarmed Christian and Yizidi men—from priests and bishops to destitute migrant workers—have been proudly displayed by the ultra violent group on social media and have drawn condemnations worldwide. But the Islamic State’s “revival” of the institution of chattel slavery—sex slavery of Christian and Yizidi women and girls no less—has faded from public attention.<br /></blockquote>Read more <a href="http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/07/31/the-islamic-states-christian-and-yizidi-sex-slaves/">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-77613169779362277582015-08-01T07:58:00.000-06:002015-08-01T08:07:00.428-06:00When you elect a President, you’re also electing a whole lot of other people.Glenn Reynolds at <a href="http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/211697/#respond">Instapundit </a>provides <blockquote><br />A BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THE JUDGE WHO <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/31/obama-appointee-blocks-more-video-releases-by-group-behind-planned-parenthood-sting/">BLOCKED RELEASE OF ABORTION STING VIDEO</a>: “Judge William H. Orrick, III, granted the injunction just hours after the order was requested by the National Abortion Federation. Orrick was nominated to his position by hardline abortion supporter President Barack Obama. He was also a major donor to and bundler for President Obama’s presidential campaign. He raised at least $200,000 for Obama and donated $30,800 to committees supporting him, according to Public Citizen.”<br /><br />Remember, when you elect a President, you’re also electing a whole lot of other people.<br /></blockquote>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-33195964361734535282015-08-01T07:52:00.001-06:002015-08-01T07:52:42.110-06:00Be human, be kind, pay attention, smile.Seth Godin expresses some thoughts today about how to keep your customers. <blockquote>Yes!, please and thank you<br /><br />Don't jerk people around<br /><br />Here's a simple marketing strategy for a smaller company trying to compete in a big-company world: Choose your customers, trust them, treat them well.<br /><br />Say yes.<br /><br />Bend the rules.<br /><br />Show up on time.<br /><br />Keep your promises.<br /><br />Don't exert power merely because you can.<br /><br />Be human, be kind, pay attention, smile.<br /><br />Not everyone deserves this sort of treatment, not everyone will do their part to be the kind of customer you can delight and serve. But that's okay, you don't need everyone.<br /><br />When in doubt, be the anti-airline.<br /></blockquote>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-57240752325130360752015-07-31T22:27:00.000-06:002015-08-01T07:46:30.379-06:00CuckservatismI have been seeing the word "cuckservative" a lot lately. I have hesitated to use it, although I think some of the GOP candidates are awfully mushy. I also hesitate to use it because I have seen it at sites that I think are racist, such as <a href="https://heartiste.wordpress.com/shit-cuckservatives-say/">Chateau Heartiste.</a><br /><br />Charles C. Johnson writes at Taki's Magazine, <blockquote>“Cuckservative” isn’t about race but about how much power you allow the word “racist” to have over you. It’s about the fake, phony conservatives who enjoy watching the real fighters on the right get sodomized while they gleefully gawk.<br /><br />...Thirty-year-old William F. Buckley, writing in the inaugural issue of National Review, put it thusly:<br /><br />Radical conservatives in this country have an interesting time of it, for when they are not being suppressed or mutilated by the Liberals, they are being ignored or humiliated by a great many of those of the well-fed Right, whose ignorance and amorality have never been exaggerated for the same reason that one cannot exaggerate infinity.<br /><br />...But there’s a new generation cropping up that is giving the finger to the established way of doing things. James O’Keefe changed voter ID laws in six states for less than $50,000 while voter integrity fraud group True the Vote all but imploded. He defunded ACORN for a few thousand while the Cato Institute has wasted millions in its failed efforts to privatize Social Security. My friend David Daleiden ended Planned Parenthood’s string of victories with $100,000 and three years of meticulous planning. Pro-life professional activists, meanwhile, have spent $1 billion and 30 years and have nothing to show for it. I sued to slow down the Soros-funded #BlackLivesMatters anti-police terrorism for $20,000 before coming up with the evidence that discredited the Ferguson protesters and Michael Brown. I delivered a brutal blow to both Rolling Stone magazine and campus feminism by naming Jackie Coakley for about $500. Yesterday yet another lawsuit was filed against Rolling Stone using my research.</blockquote>Read more <a href="http://takimag.com/article/refugee_from_cuckservatism_charles_johnson/page_2#axzz3hX4bZIl3">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-28433067920496270312015-07-31T21:53:00.000-06:002015-07-31T21:53:41.052-06:00Hillary Clinton stomped all over Jeb Bush todayMichael Barbaro writes in the New York Times, <blockquote>Jeb Bush and his aides had envisioned a big, inclusive, high-minded speech about race on Friday in his home state of Florida, a chance to bring his message of colorblind opportunity to a prestigious group of African-American leaders.<br /><br />In a rare gesture of bipartisanship, Mr. Bush even planned to warmly quote President Obama, usually the object of his derision.<br /><br />Then Hillary Rodham Clinton stomped all over those plans.<br /><br />In a biting surprise attack, delivered as Mr. Bush, the former Florida governor, waited backstage here at the annual convention of the National Urban League, Mrs. Clinton portrayed him as a hypocrite who had set back the cause of black Americans.<br /><br />It was an unexpected moment of political theater that seemed to presage what could be a bitter general-election rivalry between two of the biggest names in American politics.<br /><br />Mrs. Clinton, a Democratic candidate for president, latched onto Mr. Bush’s campaign slogan and the name of his “super PAC” —Right to Rise, his shorthand for a conservative agenda of self-reliance and hope — and turned it into a verbal spear.<br /><br />“People can’t rise if they can’t afford health care,” Mrs. Clinton said to applause from conventiongoers, a dig at Mr. Bush’s opposition to the Affordable Care Act.<br /><br />“They can’t rise if the minimum wage is too low to live on,” she said, a jab at his opposition to raising the federal minimum wage.<br /><br />“They can’t rise if their governor makes it harder for them to get a college education,” she said, a critique of Mr. Bush’s decision as governor to eliminate affirmative action in college admissions.<br /><br />When Mr. Bush reached the lectern, declaring, “I believe in the right to rise in this country,” the scent of political gunpowder was still in the air.<br /><br />The assault on her Republican rival was all the more striking because the Bush and Clinton families make a point of highlighting their friendly ties: Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush appear on this week’s cover of Time magazine.<br /><br />Mr. Bush appeared unprepared to respond, thanking Mrs. Clinton for joining him at the event but otherwise leaving her criticism unanswered in his own speech.</blockquote>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-77448927308402989332015-07-31T21:33:00.000-06:002015-07-31T21:33:14.512-06:00And I, I will always love you...<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LSBq1YjHL6w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-69269473576976972752015-07-31T20:00:00.000-06:002015-07-31T20:00:21.813-06:00Crushed and broken bodies of innocent childrenLaura Ingraham writes at LifeZette, <blockquote>The same week we see staffers at Planned Parenthood haggling over baby body parts, chit-chatting as tiny hands and hearts slosh around in specimen bowls, the elites’ outpouring of grief and anger centers on a lion two continents away.<br /><br />I share their sadness for the dead lion. But I will never understand how they can feel no pain over the crushed and broken bodies of innocent children.</blockquote>Read more <a href="http://www.lifezette.com/lifezette/cecil-and-cecile/">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-15811369254977612742015-07-31T19:16:00.000-06:002015-07-31T19:16:29.471-06:00Maybe they can get a grant from the Clinton FoundationMark Lungariello writes at lohud.com, <blockquote>CHAPPAQUA – Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino walked up to the gated entrance to the Clinton home in this leafy hamlet on Friday, telling the guard he wanted to see Hillary.</blockquote><object id="flashObj" width="600" height="390" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isSlim=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=4372661064001&playerID=2899760983001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACNCxHpk~,ZomDDi5uoNMih4uUBsVY8TDoEnUocpXe&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isSlim=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=4372661064001&playerID=2899760983001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACNCxHpk~,ZomDDi5uoNMih4uUBsVY8TDoEnUocpXe&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="600" height="390" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object> Astorino, a Republican, had summoned reporters to the cul-de-sac outside the home of the Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State to draw attention to Westchester's fight with federal officials over an affordable housing settlement. He said he planned to ask Clinton if she thought the town she lives in is discriminatory. The county executive lashed out at the federal government for threatening penalties this week against Westchester for violating the terms of the 2009 settlement, a claim the county denies. Astorino, sounding a familiar refrain, said the federal government wants to dismantle zoning and go as far as building apartments in single-family-home neighborhoods. “This isn’t alarmist,” he said. “This is happening right here in Westchester County and if you live in Texas, if you live in Ohio, if you live in Florida, if you live in Maine — wherever you live in the United States — you are next.” Read more <a href="http://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2015/07/24/astorino-clinton-chappaqua-affordable-housing/30626271/">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-59535675206568784282015-07-31T18:52:00.000-06:002015-07-31T18:52:51.787-06:00Do drones trump “Constitutional rights” to both privacy and property? <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WhlMHbeyYlo/VbwUpOkIFKI/AAAAAAAAUkc/-3HtbZXeqEs/s1600/shot.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WhlMHbeyYlo/VbwUpOkIFKI/AAAAAAAAUkc/-3HtbZXeqEs/s400/shot.jpg" /></a><br /><br />This man's daughters were sunbathing in his yard behind a six foot fence. The daughters came to get their father and tell him that a drone was hovering overhead. The man shot the drone out of the sky. The owners of the drone came to his house to tell him that he now owed them $1800. He responded by telling them that if they came across the sidewalk, there would be another shooting. The man was arrested for wanton endangerment and criminal mischief. <br /><br />Chris Matyszczyk writes at Yahoo News, <blockquote>For his part, Merideth says he will sue the drone's owners. He told WRDB: "You know, when you're in your own property, within a six-foot privacy fence, you have the expectation of privacy. We don't know if he was looking at the girls. We don't know if he was looking for something to steal. To me, it was the same as trespassing."</blockquote><br />What would you do?<br /><br />Read more here.<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/man-shoots-down-drone-hovering-000032027.html"></a><br />and <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2015/07/31/man-shoots-drone-trespassing-over-his-property-and-is-arrested/">here.</a><br /><br />Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-28825521991170120262015-07-31T17:46:00.001-06:002015-07-31T17:46:34.748-06:00"What is the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist?"<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mCljSTSRwpA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-45455801491914618312015-07-31T17:29:00.000-06:002015-07-31T17:33:59.004-06:00Swept under the rugElizabeth Price Foley writes at Instapundit, <blockquote>the genocidal aims of Iran toward Israel have been swept under the rug, not even worthy of discussion, which is exactly what the Obama Administration wanted. The Administration’s failure to even discuss the inhumanity of Iran’s racist/ethnic hatred is both shameful and telling, particularly given that Obama is our first black president whose entire presidency has focused incessantly on issues of race and ethnicity. The Obama Administration’s indifference to Iran’s hatred of Jews will further fan the flames such hatred across the globe.<br /><br />The only explanation I can fathom for American Jews’ acquiescence to the Iran deal is that most are liberals/progressives first, Jews second. How tragic that this attitude has emerged only one generation removed from the Holocaust.</blockquote>Read more <a href="http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/211648/#respond">here.</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-88939520662005600952015-07-31T09:14:00.001-06:002015-07-31T09:14:10.280-06:00IAEA refuses to brief US Senators on Iran side dealBridget Johnson reports at PJ Media, <blockquote>Leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said at a hearing on the Iran nuclear deal today that they requested a meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency on its agreements with Tehran.<br /><br />These deals are not in the possession of the Obama administration and have never been seen by Secretary of State John Kerry, much less provided to Congress.<br /><br />“I believe one person may have read it at the — at the facility, but doesn’t have it, they don’t possess it,” Kerry told the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday.<br /><br />Today, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano had been invited to come address lawmakers next week, but refused.<br /><br />He turned down a meeting with senators in any setting: public, private or classified.<br /><br />Corker is now gathering signatures from senators for another letter to Amano in hope that the IAEA chief will reconsider.<br /><br />Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-Md.) stressed that they’ll “continue to press” for such a meeting as “from the beginning, it’s been our hope that we can get direct communications with the IAEA.”<br /><br />Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) noted that the IAEA is a UN organization “for which we pay membership dues.”</blockquote>Read more <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/07/30/iaea-refuses-to-brief-senators-on-iran-deal-even-in-classified-setting/">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-23197938607622360132015-07-31T09:02:00.001-06:002015-07-31T09:02:35.604-06:00Blue moon tonightAlyssa Newcomb writes at ABC News, <blockquote><br />There's a reason why "once in a blue moon" is a saying and tonight will prove it.<br /><br />A blue moon is defined as any time there is a second full moon during a calendar month, according to NASA. While most years have 12 full moons, this year has 13.<br /><br />Don't let the name fool you, though. Blue moons are very rarely blue. Most are pale gray and white, resembling a moon on any other night.<br /><br />A truly blue colored moon can occur on rare occasions, according to NASA, with most being spotted after volcanic eruptions. It's also possible Friday's moon could be red.<br /><br />"Often, when the Moon is hanging low, it looks red for the same reason that sunsets are red, NASA explains. "The atmosphere is full of aerosols much smaller than the ones injected by volcanoes. These aerosols scatter blue light, while leaving the red behind."<br /><br />Step outside at sunset on July 31 to check out the blue moon, then if you're so inclined, go ahead and celebrate by doing something you only do "once in a blue moon." You do have an excuse, after all.<br /></blockquote>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-74907656908241840482015-07-31T08:39:00.001-06:002015-07-31T08:39:49.709-06:00Imagining it is often the first step to getting thereSeth Godin writes today about adding a zero. Can you imagine? <blockquote><br />Just about everyone can imagine what it would be like to add 10% more to their output, to be 10% better or faster.<br /><br />Many people can envision what their world would be like if they were twice as good, if the work was twice as insightful or useful or urgent.<br /><br />But ten times?<br /><br />It's really difficult to imagine what you would do with ten times as many employees, or ten times the assets or ten times the audience.<br /><br />And yet imagining it is often the first step to getting there.<br /></blockquote>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11546739.post-58370832778947781632015-07-30T22:45:00.002-06:002015-07-30T22:48:15.857-06:00We will not forgetSophie Jane Evans For Dailymail.com brings us these videos and photos<blockquote>released by the National Archives following a FOIA request by FRONTLINE filmmaker Colette Neirouz Hanna. </blockquote><br /><iframe frameborder="0" width="600" height="503" scrolling="no" id="molvideoplayer" title="MailOnline Embed Player" src="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/embed/video/1191870.html" ></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C5WuZ9ypkp8/Vbr5uklnFNI/AAAAAAAAUj0/ajf3HUG1zm8/s1600/w..jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C5WuZ9ypkp8/Vbr5uklnFNI/AAAAAAAAUj0/ajf3HUG1zm8/s400/w..jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AesqUbQV_GM/Vbr8M1e9gDI/AAAAAAAAUkA/64U-CZaS_yk/s1600/dic.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AesqUbQV_GM/Vbr8M1e9gDI/AAAAAAAAUkA/64U-CZaS_yk/s400/dic.jpg" /></a><br />Many more photos <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3174018/Never-seen-pictures-inside-White-House-9-11-Bush-Cheney-immediate-aftermath-Twin-Towers-terror-attack.html">here.</a>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.com0